OK, thanks for digging. Let's go with this version, then. On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Paul Smith <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2014-11-18 at 12:58 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Doesn't the description of the -A option I quoted upthread hint a >> simpler and clearer solution? I.e. "test $(ls -A | wc -l) = 0"? > > Yes, but unfortunately for us the -A flag was added to POSIX Issue 7. > It's not present in the previous version of POSIX, Issue 6: > > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/ls.html > > It came from the BSD world, so it might not be available on older > SysV-derived systems (AIX, HP-UX, even Solaris... I don't have access to > these anymore so I can't say). Ultimately it's probably more portable > to assume "ls -a" always prints "." and ".." than to assume "ls -A" is > supported. > > Cheers! > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html